The International Schools Podcast

Friday Oct 23, 2020

32 - Why and how to become an ‘ISTE Certified Educator’?

Friday Oct 23, 2020

This podcast is an excerpt from our recent ‘Virtual Summit’ on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/appsevents. It is a super interesting round table discussion between 4 of our trainers who have gone through the ‘ISTE Certified Educator’ certification process and they take a deep dive deep into explaining what the ISTE standards are and how they can help you as an educator and your school.

If you want to learn more here are our top 5 reasons to become ISTE Certified with AELearningLab:

(1) It's the gold standard certification for using technology in schools and ISTE standards are widely adopted by the Worlds leading schools. The focus is on the pedagogy so it doesn't matter if you are a fan of @AppleEDU , @MicrosoftEDU or @GoogleForEdu

(2) It's the gold standard certification for using technology in schools and ISTE standards are widely adopted by the Worlds leading schools. The focus is on the pedagogy so it doesn't matter if you are a fan of @AppleEDU , @MicrosoftEDU or @GoogleForEdu

(3) It's going to really benefit your school. As an ISTE Certified Educator you will use the ISTE standards help your school to succeed.... Also you will take the new instructional techniques you will learn as part of the course straight back to your school

(4) You can study the program 100% online with @aelearninglab with 4 initial evening webinars spread over 4 weeks then 4-5 months of directed study in the 'portfolio phase'. We will be back to running the in person course as soon as the World starts to return to normal of course

(5) We genuinely have some of the best Education Technology trainers in the World! All are current or former tech experts at leading International Schools, all of whose main focus is on helping Educators advance themselves

Get more info about our ISTE online courses here: www.aelearning.com

Here is a flyer outlining our online ISTE certification course: bit.ly/ISTEOnline

I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us! Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan AT appsevents.com

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Friday Sep 18, 2020

31 - Laura White - Education Research and Digital Observation

Friday Sep 18, 2020

Laura has worn a lot of hats: Firstly as a teacher in Religious studies and Philosophy, while also studying for an Ed.D and working as a freelance consultant and speaker. Laura is currently transitioning out of full time teaching to work as a consultant and we discuss this and many other things in a wide-ranging discussion, including talking about:

Laura’s career so far
Doing research while teaching
Laura’s research
Digital observation
Being a coach at the Google Innovator Academy
What it’s like to study for an Ed.D. The differences from a PhD, workload and more
Moving full time to be an education consultant - how to start as a consultant and a speaker at conferences
Digital equity

I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us! Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan AT appsevents.com

Laura White on social media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-white-a9b0832b/?originalSubdomain=uk

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinkteachtech

Web: https://www.thinkteachtech.co.uk/

Dan Taylor on social media:

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Welcome to The International Schools Podcast, I’m your host Dan Taylor and on the podcast we discuss all aspects of technology and life in International Schools with New episodes live every two weeks. We focus on people currently working in International Schools and talk about life in their current country and dive into some specific topics.

This podcast is brought to you by Acer for Education. People ask us what Chromebooks and Windows laptops we recommend for schools and after trying them all we always recommend Acer. If you’d like more info please just your email at gg.gg/acereducation and we’ll get back to you.

We go to Acer HQ in Taiwan every year to be part of product discussions and they are genuinely the best thought out, cost-effective, and durable devices out there.

This podcast is also sponsored by ‘AppsEvents’. We’re a Google Education Partner and made up of former educators, all experts in helping schools integrate Google into their schools and classrooms. All training is customized for each school to make sure it has a lasting impact. We are also the experts on online Google training and deliver our certification bootcamps completely online to schools.

We have teams in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the US so we can help you wherever you are.

We are also an ISTE partner and delivering the ISTE Certified Educator worldwide through our subsidiary AE Learning.

ISTE Certification is a pedagogy focused, vendor-neutral professional certification aimed at educators wishing to transform their edtech practice.

We run 2-day certification bootcamps which are amazing fun, great networking, and will give a huge boost to both your career and your school.

Get all the info at aelearninglab.com

Friday Sep 04, 2020

30 - Casey von Neumann - Founding your own middle school

Friday Sep 04, 2020

Casey worked at a US public school for only one year as a music teacher before she took the brave step of leading to found her own music school back in 2001. She then took the even more amazing step to establish her own middle school! The school has been a huge success and Casey has also gone on to found an online school. It’s an amazing story of an ‘Educator Entrepreneur’.

I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us!

Casey von Neumann on social media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eclecticcasey/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaseyMcCann

Web: http://www.caseymccann.com/ Casey’s school: http://thelittlemiddleschool.com/teaching-team

Dan Taylor on social media: